firefox 'freezes' after Gnome 2.10 upgrade.

[Mike Carlson]

Opps, that was a typo, sorry folks!

I tried removing all plugins as well, from the directory
/usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/, same problem.

I am using the ports/www/firefox/ port, I dont think its using any
sort of linux wrappers.


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:57:16 -0600, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:11:26 -0800, Mike Carlson <m87carlson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > After a successful upgrade to Gnome 2.10 I have started experiencing a
> > very annoying problem with both firefox and mozilla.
> >
> > If either i try to download something, or I visit a site that is well
> > beyond basic html, the browser completely freezes, but stays in a
> > [ksesel] state. Some example sites would be http://www.hardocp.com/
> > and http://www.dilber.com.
> 
> Uh oh, must be typo in the second link... It's a porn site. ;-) Anyway, I
> can't reproduce your problem here with Firefox, which it loads very fast.
> I bet your problem is has to do with the plugins. Delete all plugins and
> see what happened. I have the feel that it's more issue with that linux
> wrap plugin if you are using.
> 
> > I first though this was a scheduling issue so I have tried to use the
> > SCHED_ULE scheduler and playing around with /etc/libmap.conf and
> > mapping firefox to either libr_c or libpthread. But I can still
> > reproduce the freeze.
> >
> > I should also mention that I cannot actually USE Gnome, I get the
> > gnome logo and thats it. I use xfce4 anyways.
> >
> > Any pointers or help would be appreciated, I know this list is a
> > little flooded right now.
> 
> It's not flood.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > And please CC me as I do not belong to this list.
> >
> > Mike C
> 
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